I took the Trail Magazine team of three up Snowdon today to put into practice the winter skills that we refreshed yesterday. It was raining most of the day, turning to sleet over about 1000m. The snow pack was saturated and we saw evidence of some small wet snow avalanches. The snow line has risen to about 600 metres. This should partially refreeze overnight but then the freezing level is rising over the summits again later in the day tomorrow. It felt very Scottish today, it was very windy on the summit (50-60mph) and we had no visibility for most of the day. The depth of snow has obliterated the path above the intersection of the Miners Track & the PYG track and we were breaking trail on virgin snow to the summit ridge!
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